Starting with that ominous phrase over the police radio — “shots fired” — reporters and photographers at the paper started work on the biggest story of the day: A possible “hostage-style” situation at a business on South Enota Drive that ended with one man, the suspected gunman, dead after police responded to the call and shot the suspect.

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